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title: Then the workman ran to the smithy, and soon returned with the husba… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the workman ran to the smithy, and soon returned with the husband, crying out to the servants to stop and not to hang the smith, for there the master was! Who acts: workman, master. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 133

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Then the workman ran to the smithy, and soon returned with the husband, crying out to the servants to stop and not to hang the smith, for there the master was!

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**Who acts:** workman, master · **What happens:** run, return, cry out, stop, not hang, be · **To what, where:** servants, smith

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (workman, master), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62509:16:133
# text = Then the workman ran to the smithy, and soon returned with the husband, crying out to the servants to stop and not to hang the smith, for there the master was!
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	workman	workman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	smithy	smithy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
11	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	hang	hang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	smith	smith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | the workman |  |  |  | then | to the smithy *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to smithy=Result |
| 2 | **return** | participle | the workman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the husband; soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **cry out** *speech: express* | gerund | the workman *not said here* |  | the servants |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to servant=Recipient |
| 4 | **stop** | to-infinitive | the workman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 5 | **not** **hang** | to-infinitive | the workman *not said here* | the smith |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smith=Patient |
| 6 | **is** | past | the master |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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